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Posix call (execve) breaks mercurial?

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Date Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:10:12 -0500 (CDT)
From Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com>
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So... this is certainly the deepest I've got to dig into any source code.

I'm experimenting with Review Board for code reviews, and trying to get it 
set up/working here at work. When using post-review, however, I started 
getting issues with untrusted users - even though they were set to trusted 
in my ~/.hgrc and things worked fine otherwise.

So here's where things got weird. I could call 
`subprocess.check_output(['hg', 'root'])`, and things worked just fine. 
But when I added the env parameter, I got the untrusted issues. So if I 
did:

import os, subprocess

# Works just fine
subprocess.check_output(['hg', 'root'])

# Gives untrusted issues
subprocess.check_output(['hg', 'root'], env=os.environ)


Long story short, I dug around the source code and ended up at the POSIX 
execve function. I've been reading the manpages, but nothing seems to pop 
out at me as "hey, this should/shouldn't work!".

Does anyone know what's going on here, or where I should go for more help?

Thanks,
Wayne

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